Overview

The Oxford Companion to United States History

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.

Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government.

A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

Editorial Reviews

volume compendium of 1400 entries on U.S. history with the assistance of more than 900 contributors, including many well-recognized scholars. This edition is not only a resource on history itself but a measure of how the discipline has changed over the past generation. While Boyer's work continues to include entries on great people and politics, it also presents topics as diverse as the environment and the Human Genome Project and individuals as varied as Black Elk and Bill Gates. This especially user-friendly work is arranged alphabetically, with numerous cross references and an extensive index. The entries are highly readable, and most have a short bibliography. The only challenge some will find in using this work is reading the small typeface. Otherwise, this is an excellent selection for both public and academic libraries. Highly recommended. Daniel Liestman, Kansas State Univ. Libs., Manhattan Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

A reference for researchers, browsers, and general readers, with encyclopedia entries on the triumphs and heroes, as well as the tragedies and darker moments, of the American experience. Coverage includes familiar political heroes, in addition to scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, religious leaders, and infamous criminals. Entries describe events that have shaped the nation, major Supreme Court decisions, landmark legislation, social movements, influential books, ideologies, natural disasters, and iconic sites. Other entries presents the nation's social and cultural history. Extensive multi-part entries cover key topics such as the Civil War, Indian history and culture, slavery, and the federal government. Boyer teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on
core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions.CliffsQuickReview U.S. History II continues from where CliffsQuickReview U.S. History I left off ...

THE ENDURING VISION's engaging narrative integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework.
Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and ...

THE ENDURING VISION's engaging narrative integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework.
Known for its focus on the environment and the land, Boyer, et al's text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public ...

Now available in five volumes, Asa Briggs' History of British Broadcasting in the UK provides
an exhaustive chronicle of the BBC's activities, achievements, and personnel - from the early days of wireless broadcasting and the Corporation's foundation, through its establishement ...

A one-volume history of the United States from Christopher Columbus to Bill Clinton. Author/historian Philip
Jenkins summarizes the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments that have led to our world as we know it today. ...

Enriched by the wealth of new research into women's history, No Small Courage offers a
lively chronicle of American experience, charting women's lives and experiences with fascinating immediacy from the precolonial era to the present. Individual stories and primary sources-including ...

Contemporary observers often quip that the American Southwest has become “Mexicanized,” but this view ignores
the history of the region as well as the social reality. Mexican people and their culture have been continuously present in the territory for the ...

Oxford Case Histories in Oncology contains 30 well-structured cases from clinical practice, giving a comprehensive
coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in oncology. The cases cover a wide spectrum of oncology including rare presentations and clinical problems of common ...